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Kyzylkum Desert
The
Kyzylkum Desert
(, ), also spelled
Qyzylqum
, is the
16th largest
desert
in the world. Its name means
Red Sand
in
Turkic languages
. It is located in
Central Asia
in the
doab
between the rivers
Amu Darya
and
Syr Darya
, a region historically known as
Transoxania
or
Sogdiana
. Today it is divided between
Kazakhstan
,
Uzbekistan
and (partly)
Turkmenistan
. It covers about .
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